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Thoughtful. Contemporary. Global. With Perspective and Reflection.
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PUBLICATION 5th DECEMBER 2024
"An essential read for anyone concerned about humanity's trajectory and how we can shape humanity's future.. scholarly insight with accessible prose to illuminate our species' most crucial challenges while suggesting clear paths forward." Isabel Corfe, Editor, Arena Books.
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PAUL HODSON - AUTHOR
Me - the Writer
I have always been interested in the world around me and the people in it. I firmly believe that to understand the world we live in we need some historical perspective, and a willingness to reflect on what we see and do.
I specialise in engaging and informative content that resonates with readers. My aim is to increase reflection on our history and contemporary global society - its ill's and its benefits. Making people think is my greatest aim and success.
Me - the Human Being
An author now with a second book published, I previously worked as a teacher, and travel extensively. These interests, with sport, film, and reading, have given me a wealth of knowledge and understanding that in turn give me my opinions, my ideas, my perspective, my imagination, and my vision of the world.
THE BOOKS
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Through looking at areas as diverse as Government and Leadership, Science and Technology, Religion, and other areas, this book shows how we got to where we are. It uses different perspectives, current developments, and various subject disciplines, including a bit of philosophy and common sense, to suggest where we might be headed.
As Shake
Through looking at areas as diverse as Government and Leadership, Science and Technology, Religion, and other areas, this book shows how we got to where we are. It uses different perspectives, current developments, and various subject disciplines, including a bit of philosophy and common sense, to suggest where we might be headed.
As Shakespeare would appreciate, some parts are bigger than others, but the whole is better when everyone plays their role. A Head of State may have unique power, a devoted activist out-size influence, but if individuals choose to buy or not buy a brand, to recycle, or to vote, they have an influence. Everyday millions of people make choices and changes that have an influence.
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Beginning at the very beginning this book charts the development of England's, and then Britain's, characteristics, through the great and the good, through ordinary men and women, through landscape and rural life, market towns, provincial cities and the great metropolis of London, through people, places, events and ideas.
63. Reform or Rev
Beginning at the very beginning this book charts the development of England's, and then Britain's, characteristics, through the great and the good, through ordinary men and women, through landscape and rural life, market towns, provincial cities and the great metropolis of London, through people, places, events and ideas.
63. Reform or Revolution: Part 1
It could not go on. Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) foreshadowed changes. His ‘Utilitarianism’ promoted sweeping away what did not work. He applied this to social reform and welfare, politics and especially the legal system, which he sought with some degree of success to reform towards more rational principles and away from individual perceptions. He saw the development of a moral good based in the natural human instinct of balancing self-interest with possible harm.
Publication and Reviews
Publication and Reviews
Where are we going, and are we nearly there yet?
PUBLISHED 5TH DECEMBER 2024
AVAILABLE FROM
Arena Books Ltd.:
Where are we Going? - Arena Books
Waterstones: Where are we Going and are we Nearly There Yet? by Paul Hodson | Waterstones
The Great British Bookshop: Where are we Going and are we Nearly There Yet?
Amazon: Where are we Going
Where are we going, and are we nearly there yet?
PUBLISHED 5TH DECEMBER 2024
AVAILABLE FROM
Arena Books Ltd.:
Where are we Going? - Arena Books
Waterstones: Where are we Going and are we Nearly There Yet? by Paul Hodson | Waterstones
The Great British Bookshop: Where are we Going and are we Nearly There Yet?
Barnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/where-are-we-going-and-are-we-nearly-there-yet-paul-hodson/1147227911?ean=9781914390364 (US$28.99)
AND OTHER BOOKSTORES
English and British History in 100 Bitesize Chunks
Matador, 2020.
“Paul Hodson has accomplished the mountainous challenge of documenting British History from the geological formation of these islands to the arrival of humans, right up to our present-day culture. He has carved the path for readers to follow him in 100 steps. To see this timeline so clearly adds a new and surprising context to what and where we are today.”
Matthew Parris, of The Times, 1st June 2021.
inspiration and recommendations
2025: at Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico
The site at Uxmal, shown here, with it's Pyramid of the Magician, or Divine, is stunning, and beats the crowds at Chichen Itza. Mexico - Mexico City and the Yucatan - showed a fantastic array of Mexico's historic and modern history and culture, from the Maya temples to the massive mural art of Diego Rivera. Less a fan of Merida's 40 degr
The site at Uxmal, shown here, with it's Pyramid of the Magician, or Divine, is stunning, and beats the crowds at Chichen Itza. Mexico - Mexico City and the Yucatan - showed a fantastic array of Mexico's historic and modern history and culture, from the Maya temples to the massive mural art of Diego Rivera. Less a fan of Merida's 40 degree + Celsius heat in late March, although a change from the UK!
A recommendation worth considering?
A recommendation worth considering?
- BBC Radio 4's series Conflict and Co-operation: A History of Trade seems promising..
- Now listening to an audio book version of Private Revolutions by Yuan Yang about the lives and ambitions of four individual women in China through the 1980's and 1990's, a period of immense change.
- and re-learning, again, the benefit of labelling photos at the time!